ExxonMobil brings Kearl oil sands expansion online ahead of schedule; overall capacity doubling to 220K barrels per day
Green Car Congress
JUNE 17, 2015
The PFT process removes a portion of the heavy end of the barrel (asphaltenes) using less energy than would be required to remove the same heavy ends in a coker at an on-site upgrader, thus reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This places oil sands within the same GHG intensity range as 45% of crude oil supplied to US refineries in 2012.).
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